"Shampoo, it's just you and me now, all alone, together in the dark," Mousse
gushes as he hugs a large boulder.
	Shampoo smashes his face into his affectionate rock.  "Stupid Mousse,
Shampoo no want to be stuck here with you for long.  Stop raping rock and we
go find Ranma."
	"But Shampoo, we don't even know if Ranma made it here.  For all we know, we
we're the only one's.  In fact, we don't even know where we teleported to.  I
don't even know where we were trying to teleport too."  Mousse, glasses in
place, begins to move closer to Shampoo.  "The two of us could be stuck here
forever in these caverns," Mouse says out loud while images of him and
Shampoo making a life in these caverns alone, without that stupid Ranma
interfering, drift through his head.  He begins to imagine them cooking
together, watching Fushigi Yuugi on T.V., playing tennis in these caverns,
laughing and enjoying themselves in each image.  An image of Shampoo giving
birth comes to him, and together they raise a lovely young... DUCK!
	"Ahhh!" Mousse yells out as he breaks from his daydreaming by Shampoo
kicking him into the wall.
	"Now, now, you'd better all save your strength.  You're going to need it,"
harasses a strong, yet young voice.  Fossilite appears hovering in the air,
looking very confident.  "Would you both like to kiss each other good-bye?"
	"Me die first before kiss Mousse," rebuts Shampoo.
	"That's the idea," Fossilite cackles as he unleashes a negaforce blast at
her.  "What?" he mutters out as his blast is shielded by... a huge shield.
 Suddenly, a ball and chain strikes him in the face.  
	"Neither of us is dying, least of all Shampoo!" cries Mousse as he wraps his
chains around Fossilite.  Fossilte is then slammed to the ground.
	Shampoo lands on Fossilite's head.  Then turns around to Mousse.  "Dumb
Mousse, Shampoo jump clear of blast, no need your help."
	Just then, Fossilite is able to flip to his feet and attempts to kick
Shampoo, who easily dodges and uppercuts him straight up into ceiling.
 Fossilite bounces off it back to the ground.
	"Now I'm mad," declares Fossilite as negaenergy begins to build around him.
 Suddenly, the energy takes shape as twin blades, and cuts off Mousse's
chains.  Fossilite then rechannels the energy, and shoots a blast of energy
straight for Shampoo, too fast for her to dodge.
	"Ai ya," Shampoo squeaks as immanent death approached her.
	"Shampoo, look out!" Mousse cries as he jumps at her and throws both of them
down to the ground.
	"Mousse, get off Sham...," Shampoo stops as she notices Mousse's right leg
drenched in blood.  Apparently he pushed her out of the way, but couldn't get
clear himself as the beam slashed his calf.  It was a clean cut, and the
wound was charred so it didn't bleed too much.  But it hurt like hell, and
wasn't going to heal easily, if at all.
	"Shampoo... are you... alright," Mousse grimaces.  He attempts to stand up,
and with the support of the wall and his indomitable will, gets onto his
feet.  "You're not going to touch Shampoo, I'll protect her if it kills me."
	"Noble words boy, prepare to die by them," Fossilite says right before a
port-o-potty shaped as a duck slams into his face.  
	Mousse then tries to advance, but falls down, the pain in his leg too much
to bear, least of all walk with.  "Must... protect... Shampoo," he stutters
out.
	"No Mousse, you save self first.  Shampoo take care of self-admiring young
man," Shampoo says as she steps in front of him.  She flies at Fossilite and
throws a hard right punch, but hits nothing as he suddenly disappears.
	"I've wasted enough time with you peons," chortles a voice that echoes
throughout the caverns.  "I have a better and slightly ironic way of taking
care of the two of you," Fossilite laughs.  "Carnality, I summon you!"
	All of a sudden, a mist appears behind Mousse.
	"Mousse, look out behind you," warns Shampoo, but it was too late.  The mist
enters Mousse's body.
	"Arghhh," Mousse cries out while his entire body shudders, and finally falls
to the ground.  He then slowly rises, and stands up, his leg apparently
healed.
	"Mousse, you okay?  You heal fast."
	Without warning, a chain with a weight attached to it flies at Shampoo.
 She's able to dodge it, but Mousse swings the chain around, wrapping it
around her legs.  The weight then slams into her knees, knocking her down.
	"He was ready to die to save you.  Let's see how well he takes it after he
realizes he's the one that killed you," laughs Fossilite.  "I'd love to see
this, but your other friends need to be taken care of."
	"Mousse, what wrong with..." Shampoo tries to say, but is instead lifted
into the air, and spun.  The world becomes a blur to her as she is spun
faster and faster.  All of a sudden, the world stops spinning and turns black
for a moment.  Shampoo open's her eyes to see herself flat on her face.  Her
whole backside hurt.  Mousse had let go of the chain and she crashed into the
cavern wall.
	Her head becomes on fire as she's lifted up by her hair.  He stares into
Mousse's eyes, but see's nothing but an unfamiliar icy gaze.  "Mousse, listen
to Shampoo, you have to..." but she is cut off by having her face slammed
into his knee, and then flung across the room by her hair.
	"I've been reading this boy's thoughts, and you're one mean bitch.  Do you
even comprehend what he feels for you?  I'd be doing him a favor by killing
you.  You most certainly deserve this," an emotionless voice of  Mousse
cracks out.
	Shampoo had managed to relax the muscles in her legs enough to slip them out
of the chain.  "Shampoo knock sense into you," she cries as she attempts a
flying lariat at Mousse.  He easily sidesteps it and slams his palm into her
back, sending her crashing into the rocks.
	Mousse spreads his arms as two razor blades come out of them.  "The sad
thing is, the boy won't even appreciate what I'm doing for him.  He'll
probably kill himself after finding your cut up body and his blades covered
in your blood," muses Mousse.  He then dives at Shampoo.
	She dodges him, and spins around as her foot connects with his face.  Mousse
stutters back, and Shampoo flies at him with an ax kick snapping his neck
back.  But Mousse was stronger than ever now, and Shampoo was not prepared
for him lunging forward after that kick.  She moves, but a blade glances her
abdomen.  While she reacts to the cut, Mousse had already spun around and the
other blade slashes her right below her breasts.  She falls to the ground
trying to contain the crimson seeping out of her.
	"Stupid girl, go fight or he kill you," her mind tells her, but she can't
help clutching her throbbing wound.  It just hurts too much, and all that
blood...
	"Good-bye Shampoo," Mousse says as he prepares to cut her head open.  As he
begins to swing the blade down, his arms suddenly jerk and he misses her head
by inches.
	"What?" he wonders right before a gurgle of pain begins to come out of his
throat.  "No, this can't be happening, noarghhh," he screams as his whole
body trembles.  "I've taken over... noooo!" a voice cries right before
another voice comes from Mousse saying "Cold day... in hell... before I let
you kill Shampoo... with my body!"  Mousse falls to the ground, still shaking
hard, fighting the demon inside him.  "Did enough damage... to my love...
already," Mousse begins but the emotionless voice cries out "WHY DO YOU DO
THIS?"  Mousse starts tremoring hard enough that he was digging a hole in the
ground.  "Because... I Love Her... for the last time... GET OUT OF ME!" he
screams as the purple mist shoots out of his body.  Mousse falls to his hands
and knees, while the mist begins to take form.
	"Fine then, I'll kill you both myself," a winged creature wearing a white
tunic roars.  A face resembling the devil himself, and feet that resembled
talons were additional features to the beast.  Cupid in the mind of Tim
Burton if you will.
	"Carnality will have his woman," the creature says as a bow and arrow
suddenly appears in his hands.  He prepares to release it at the still
recovering Shampoo.  Suddenly, a sword slashes the bow to pieces.
	"You have to get through me first!  And thanks for healing my leg, allow me
to repay you," Mousse says as he charges the demon with a claw on one wrist,
and a sword in his other hand.
	"Prepare to die for your bitch whore," the creature replies as his two arms
turn into bows.  They rapidly fire arrows at Mousse, who manages to block
them all.
	"Heh, I guess fighting with Ranma all the time improved my martial arts,"
Mousse realizes right before he slashed off the monsters hands with the claw,
and impaled his head with the sword.
	"*gurgle* True love... prevails," the exposed head gurgles out before
Carnality reverted into mist with a burst of energy and dissipated into the
air.
	Mousse falls back to the ground.  Exorcising himself had taken all the
energy he had.  He then completely collapses.
	Shampoo walks to Mousse, her sleeves torn off and wrapped around her cut,
and lifts him into her lap.  "Stupid Mousse, you okay?" she gently asks as
she strokes his hair.
	"...Sorry I cut you Shampoo... wouldn't blame you... if you hated me," he
deliriously stammers out.  "But please forgive me... I love you."
	"Shampoo no hate you Mousse," she whispers to him.  
	Mousse could feel her breath on his face.  He strives to open his eyes, and
finds Shampoo's face very close to his.  Was he that delirious?
 "Shampoo...," Mousse starts.
	Shampoo's finger touches his lips.  "Shhhh," she shushes, and moves her lips
towards his.
	Mousse couldn't believe this.  He had waited how many years for this?  One,
two... he had waited all his life for this!  His whole body felt numb, but he
still struggled to move his head towards hers.  They get closer and then...
he blacks out.

	"I can't get through to anyone else with the communicator.  The different
frequency and waves inside the negaverse can't be compensated without more
equipment," a frustrated Mercury complains as she plays with her computer.
 "But I've traced them, and it seems everyone else made it here too, it's
just that we all teleported to different places due to the surplus of people
teleporting."
	"My blue haired beauty, let us neglect our comrades and instead take
advantage of the intimacy the heavens themselves have granted us," Kuno
recites as he pins Mercury to the wall.  "Surly, the gods themselves have
shown they advocate our love."
	Mercury is able to squirm free from Kuno.  "I wonder if anyone else is
having this problem," she wonders.  "No Kuno, our first priority is to find
the others.  The negaverse will easily dispose of all of us if we don't all
regather soon."
	"Not soon enough," a voice grumbles.  Jeddite suddenly appears standing on a
large boulder.  "Hello Sailor Brat, remember me?"
	"Jeddite!" Mercury exclaims instantly recognizing her old nemesis.  "Queen
Beryl must be very desperate to bring back a flop like you."
	"The Queen did the right thing freezing me after all my failures," Jeddite
says before releasing an energy blast that blows a hole in the ground,
sending Kuno and Mercury flying.  "The right thing, but I'll prove to her it
wasn't the wisest after I dispose of you!"  He then flies straight at
Mercury.  Before he knows it, a sword had struck him in the back.
	"Vile demon!  You shall not be laying your repellent claws on my Juliet."
 Kuno says as he raises his bokken into the air.  "Prepare to face the wrath
of the blue thunder of Furinkan High, feel the timber that has shattered many
evils already, I, Tatewaki Kuno oooof!" Kuno grunts as a negaforce blast
sends him skidding across the rocky ground.
	Mercury wonders who had the bigger ego, Jeddite or Kuno.
	"Enough of that distraction, let us prepare to finish our long battle,"
Jeddite seethes as he stares at Mercury, who was already in a fighting
stance.
	All of a sudden, Jeddite winces in pain as he's slashed across the back.  He
turns around to see Kuno upright again.
	"Ha ha ha!  Feeble-witted hell spawn!  Did you think the kendo master
Tatewaki Kuno would be so easily defeated?  You are truly the most asinine
soul of all Hades.  Prepare to return to your lair," clamors Kuno as he
slashes away at Jeddite.
	Jeddite easily grabs Kuno's bokken with his bare hand, and while Kuno
struggled to wrench it free, blasts Kuno with another negaforce blast with
his free hand.
	Kuno is laid out against the rocky wall; the craggy edges of it begin to
tear at his flesh.  As Jeddite lets out a laugh, he increases the pressure on
Kuno, who is further squished against the wall.
	Mercury forms a bubble between her hands, then spins around while reciting
"Mercury Bubble..." and finishes her rotation with the bubble levitating in
the air with her arms crossed.  ...Blast!" she shouts as the room suddenly
fills with fog.
	Jeddite's powers are momentarily neutralized as Kuno limply falls off the
wall, still clutching his bokken tightly.  Mercury runs to his side, and
slides his arm around her shoulder, attempting to lift him up.
	"Kuno, try to walk, I can't carry you by myself," pleads Mercury.
	"And where would I walk to?  No, this fowl beast has only begun to taste the
might of Tatewaki Kuno," Kuno raves as he pulls himself away from Mercury,
but falls to the ground.  "Just a short receipt, and I shall smite the demon
back to the abyss."
	"Kuno, we don't have time for your ego...," an irritated Mercury begins but
is cut off when Jeddite suddenly appears before her.  She attempts to throw a
punch at him, but he grabs her fist, and slaps her across the face.  Mercury
twists to the ground.  Her head was spinning wildly.  Of all the scouts, she
had the least stamina against pain.
	"With you down, it's only four to go," gloats Jeddite as he prepares to
blast Mercury.  He is interrupted by a sound of a flying sword.
	Jeddite flies into the air as the sword crashes into the floor, sending
chips of rock flying everywhere.  "You idiot, I'll make sure you stay down
this time!" exclaims Jeddite.  But before he knows it, a heavy swing by Kuno
is barely dodged by him.  Then he looks down and see's a streak of green
blood across his chest.  Not dodged after all.
	"So the creature doth bleed?  In the immortal words of Arnold
Schwarzenegger, 'If it bleeds, we can kill it,'" recalls Kuno as he makes
another attack at Jeddite.
	"The Sailor Scouts never drew blood," a startled Jeddite thinks.  Infuriated
by this, he lands a bare knuckled punch on Kuno's face that sends him
staggering backwards.  "Foolish boy, now you've sealed your fate.  Screw the
Sailor Brat, you die!"
	"Scum of the negaworld, how dare you even touch the lovely blue haired
venus, least of all strike her!  Surely you are the basest of all devils,"
rants Kuno as he moves in for his quick strike technique.
 "Tatatatatatatatatatatatat!"
	Jeddite was fast, but not fast enough to avoid all of Kuno's blows.  He felt
nick after nick across his whole body.  He was beginning to lose a
significant amount of blood.  "RAAAAH!" roars Jeddite as he launches a crest
of energy that sends Kuno winding in the air before crashing into stone.
 Jeddite releases another blast that misses Kuno, but the explosion sends him
airborne again, before gravity retakes control.
	His whole body throbbed like it never had before.  Against Ranma, it was
either a concussion or temporary paralysis.  Ranma, no one, had ever
subjected him to such a brutal beating before.  He could see wet red dripping
onto the floor.  He chuckled at the sight of his blood.  In this moment, Kuno
grasped something that was hardly ever in his hold.  He grasped what little
sanity he had.  Kuno knew he wasn't going to defeat this monster.  This
monster would beat him until he died.
	"Flee my fair one, away from this contemptuous beast and me," beseeched
Kuno.
	"I can't just leave you," argued Mercury, who had finally recovered.
	"Your doubt in me is ill founded.  Just place your faith in me, and I shall
surely prevail with a goddess' belief in me," Kuno assures.  He then turns to
face Jeddite.  "Now go while I finish off this foul miscreant!"
	"You'd better run while you can Sailor Brat.  Finishing off this fool won't
take long," a furious Jeddite pronounces.
	"Learn to hold your tongue villain," yells Kuno as he charges Jeddite again.
 He was hoping his quick strike attack would work against him again.
	It didn't.  Jeddite wasn't about to be caught in it again.  Before Kuno can
get close, he unleashes a thunderous blast at Kuno.  Kuno is thrown like a
rag doll before landing with a sickening CRUNCH against the ground. Never to
admit defeat, Kuno somehow holds onto consciousness, but realizes he was
taking longer to get up than usual.  In fact, he wasn't getting up at all.
	Jeddite moved towards Kuno to crush his head under his feet, but before he
gets there, "Mercury Bubble Blast!" was heard again.  Instead of mist
however, a burst of bubbles popped against his face.
	"Damn girl, prepare to join your partner's fate," thunders Jeddite as he
shook his head.  "Unnghhh," Jeddite cringes as a sharp pain was felt in his
left leg.  He looked down and saw... Kuno's blade had gone right through his
thigh!
	"Her partner's fate... is perfectly content," a half-conscious Kuno states
right before Jeddite backhands him.  Kuno falls flat on his back, still
clutching the blood soaked sword.
	"Stop hurting him!" shouts Sailor Mercury.  "That's the last time you lay
your filthy hands on him!" she screams.  A stream of water begins to surround
her right hand.  As she spins around crying "Shining Aqua Illusion!" the
water forms a long whirlpool trailing her hand, which she flings at Jeddite.
	The cyclone of water smashes into Jeddite with amazing strength.  The force
of it sends him right through a cavern wall.  He lay there under the rubble
for awhile, before finding the strength to rise.  "I will... not fail the
Queen... I will never... be sent... to oblivion again," bellows Jeddite as he
stands upright, rubble sliding off him.
	"I'd be more concerned of me than Beryl right now," barks Mercury.  "Mercury
Ice Bubble Freeze!" she cries as a blast of cold strikes and surrounds
Jeddite.
	"Not... again," utters Jeddite before he is completely encased in a block of
ice.  A mix of surprise and fear was frozen on his face.
	Mercury was surprised at her own might.  She'd never been that aggressive
before.  She was still in awe of herself before she remembered the half dead
Kuno.
	"Kuno," she yells as she falls down to his side.  "Kuno, speak to me.  Are
you alright?  Talk to me," begs a concerned Mercury.
	Kuno's eyes flutter open, and he turns his head to look at Mercury.  "Have I
passed the mortal plane?  Because an angel now greets me."
	"No Kuno, we beat Jeddite, and all thanks to you," Mercury thanks as she
begins to tend to his wounds.
	"Alas, I cannot *coff* take this honor.  It is obvious that my hide was
indeed salvaged by the god of swift, by my dear Mercury," Kuno humbly speaks.
 "But, it is true that my assistance in all but killing the knave, was an
important contribution to your success."  He grabs Mercury's hands and
implores "we have defeated the rapscallion together.  We shall thank each
other by allowing me to date with you!"
	Mercury pulls her hands away from Kuno.  "You've obviously not in the right
state of mind right now, considering your beating.  Your wounds are serious,
you need to get some rest.  Don't forget I still have to find the other's if
we have any hope of getting out of here.  We'll move as soon as you feel
better."  As she says this, a smile creeps onto her face.
	Kuno lies down to rest at her command.  Kuno was obviously hurt bad if he
relented in his pursuit of a girl.  While he does, Mercury takes out a piece
of paper and writes something on it.  She then hands it to Kuno.
	"What is this fair maiden," inquires Kuno.
	"It's my phone number," gleams Mercury as her smile widens.  "You can give
me yours later.  By the way, I've been wanting to ask you what you thought of
Shakespeare?"
	"His verse pales in comparison to my prose.  His work is simple jingle's
compared to my elegy," boasts Kuno.

	"Akane!  Akane!" Soun hysterically cries as he runs around the cave, looking
under every rock for her.  "Akane!"
	Genma pulls out a sign and smacks Soun across the face with it.  "Calm
down," the sign read.
	"Thank you Saotome.  I needed that," replies Soun.  He takes out a water
kettle and pours it on Genma.  "Lucky I always carry one of these around,
eh?"
	"Heh heh, lucky indeed Tendo.  You wouldn't happen to be carrying around a
go board would you?" asked Genma.
	"Actually, I do carry the pieces with me, but we don't have a board."
	"That's alright, we'll just draw one on the dirt!"
	"Why, what a splendid ide... wait a minute.  Don't you care about your son
AND MY DAUGHTER!" roars Soun as he turned into his monster self.
	Genma held out the "calm down" sign again, and hid behind it.  "Alright,
alright, we'll play later.  Let's just see where the cavern leads," Genma
timidly replies.
	They both continue to wander around the caverns, Soun crying for Akane the
whole time, and Genma stuffs his face with the buns he brought.
	"Saotome, let me ask you a question.  What would we do if we did happen to
find the master?"
	"Errr, I hadn't really thought of that.  Probably what we usually do, fall
at his feet and beg for forgiveness for trying to kill him.  Why do you ask?"
	"Because there's a weird glow coming out of that cave up ahead."
	"Ahhhh!" Genma screams as he's suddenly a mile away and still running.
	"Dad?" a familiar voice cries out.  "Is that you dad?"
	"Akane!  Akane my dear baby!" exclaims Soun as he runs towards her.  He
finally see's her, but she's all alone.  "Where's Ranma, Akane?"
	She runs up to him and buries her face in his chest.  She was weeping, and
sobs out "There... there were these monsters *sniff*.  Ranma tried to save
me, and they... oh my god, *sniff* it was.. it was so terrible daddy."  She
stops and pulls up her head to look at her father.  "Ranma's dead daddy, I
barely got away."  She breaks down in tears again.
	Genma had found his way back to Soun after hearing Akane's voice.  He heard
her announcement.  He couldn't believe that his only son was... was dead.
 "Ranma's... dead," Genma states somberly, more of a startled statement than
a question.  "Where... where's his body."
	"Oh my god," she sobs, "They... Jesus Christ... they ate him."
	"Ranma... they didn't even... leave a body."  Genma drops to his rear from
shock.  "Are.. are you sure?  This can't be happening.  My boy... Ranma never
loses."  He looks at Akane, and notices something different.  No, not really
different, but missing.
	"Saotome, I'm very sorry about what's happened.  This must be very
difficult," soothes Soun.  "But we'll avenge Ranma's death.  We'll pay them
back tenfold."  He turns to Akane and orders "Where are they Akane?"
	She continues crying, "I don't *sniff* I don't know.  I was running as fast
as I could."  She lets out a moan and continues to say "I'm so sorry
everybody... I should have stayed with Ranma."
	"Should have stayed with Ranma?" Genma thinks.  And then it hits him, what
was wrong.  What was missing from Akane.  Genma quickly gets to his feet and
punches Akane in the face, sending her flying.
	"How dare you toy with my feelings like that you witch!" shouts Genma as he
pounces at Akane.
	"Genma, have you lost your mind?  I know Ranma's death is difficult, but
Akane's not to blame," Soun shouts as he grabs Genma, trying to hold him
back.
	"You don't understand Soun, let me go and I'll explain!"
	Akane slowly gets up, blood dripping from her lip.  She licks the blood and
let's out a wicked smile.  In a flash, Akane had smashed Genma's face with
her fist.
	"Akane, that wasn't necessary," scolds Soun.
	Genma breaks free and charges at Akane.  Akane ducks, but Genma also leaps
and twists in the air so he kicks Akane's back on his way down.  "That isn't
Akane, Soun!  I noticed something was missing.  I couldn't figure it out
until she mentioned how she didn't stay with Ranma.  It didn't add up; Akane
would stay by Ranma's side because she's more than willing to fight all the
time," Genma explains as he lands a foot to Akane's face.  "The one thing
about Akane is she's always mad, she's hardly ever not angry.  Because of
this, there's always a battle aura around Akane, it's always there if you
look hard enough.  But this impostor has no battle aura, only darkness
surrounds her," Genma says right before Akane grabs his arm and slams him to
the ground.
	"Akane, is this true,' asks a befuddled Soun.
	"She's not Akaerk!" Genma recoils in pain as Akane kicks him in the stomach.
	"Not bad old man, I never figured I'd be given away by something most
human's couldn't perceive.  Apparently, you bunch of rogues are beyond the
average human.  Maybe I'll let you live to become vessels for the negaverse,"
a gruff voice threatens.
	"How dare you mock my daughter!" Soun roars as he lands a flying fist to the
impostor, knocking her rolling across the floor.  Genma and Soun then both
jump kick the creature against a boulder.  The creature lay still.
	"We still got it Tendo," Genma proudly beams.
	"We never lost it Saotome."  The two then begin exchanging high five's.
	The impostor's eyes suddenly flick open.  "I'm not quite through yet," the
impostor bawls as Akane's skin is split apart as another creature rises out
of the old shell.  In a flash of light, a figure completely amorphous and
black is seen.  Only two red eyes could be made out.
	"It's... it's some kind of living shadow Saotome."
	"Shadow or no shadow, the two of us are unstoppable Tendo."
	They both then charge at the creature.  They both throw a punch together,
but their hands hit nothing and instead smashes the granite.
	"Foolish humans, I am not quite so easily defeated," snickers the dark
creature before it sinks into the shadows and vanishes.
	"The coward!  Obviously the two of us scared him off, eh Tendo?"
	"Ha ha ha, Saotome.  It's good to see you happy again after your son's
death."
	Genma hits Soun upside the hit.  "Ranma's not dead!  It was a trick!" he
yells.
	Before they knew it, long, black tendrils had wrapped around their legs and
slammed them into the sides of the cavern, repeatedly until they were both
unconscious.  The shadow figure emerges fully from the floor.
	The shadow looks at its defeated foes, and does something unexpected.  It
vanishes into thin air.  "Perhaps I should let Beryl work a little harder
after all her foul ups.  I think I'll just watch from the sidelines for now,"
the creature thinks.

	Ukyou wakes up to see the grim visage of Malachite staring at her.  She was
completely tied up.  "Y'know, I'm not into this kinky stuff," riles Ukyou.
	"You humans have such dirty minds.  I would not degrade myself to mate with
a lower species."  Malachite walks to Ukyou and picks her up by the the
excess rope.  "Tell me something, do you hope your dear 'Ranma' will come and
rescue you?  Are you sure his love for you is that strong?"
	Ukyou starts to say something, but stops.  "Does Ranma really love her?  She
couldn't really tell.  Sometimes he'd be really sweet, but usually he was
pushing her away.  Could Akane be the one he really loved?" she wonders.
	"Hmph.  Your silence answers my question," says Malachite as he drops her
back to the ground.
	"My Ranma is coming, you'll see!  Whatever is between us, Ranma would never
leave me here with a creep like you!" Ukyou shouts back defiantly.
	Malachite is suddenly silent, as if he were listening really hard.  "It
appears you are right.  Kind of a no lose situation though isn't it?  If
Ranma didn't love you, he would stay home, but he'd be safe.  Him coming
shows his feelings, but now..., I kill him," Malachite grins.
	"If you hurt him you jackass," Ukyou screams as she tries to crawl her way
to him.  "I'll make hell your new address!"
	"If I get my way, I'll rule hell," Malachite cackles as he disappears.